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I have done a bit more glassing in the boot area and have also fixed the interior boot lining panel to the chassis, so the rear end is starting to firm up a little now.

I decided to tackle the bulkhead behind the seats. I got it into position and marked it up from trimming. I guess the bottom edge would have sat on the lower chassis rail, but cast your minds back and you may recall I modified the chassis in this area to increase legroom, so I was expecting to trim this panel due to that.

Once I had it trimmed to a fit I was happy with, I slotted it up behind the main body downstand and used some drywall screws to hold it in position

I then decided to unload a tube of Tiger Seal on the joints to bond them as much as I could

To finish this panel off it will need to be glassed along the top joint. The sides and bottom and section around the tunnel will also be glassed to the chassis

I decided to have a play with my DA polisher and some 180 grit pads around the front wing and nose area mould lines.

As you can see some holes have appeared along the line of the mould joint that need attention. What would the GRP experts recommend for filling these?
P38?
Flowcoat?
Something Else?

If they are deep use chopped glass paste, don't faff and nonce about, get in with a scriber or something pointy and get the holes clear, also any that look soft or there might be a hole under the gel or air bubble in the grp, then open them up, get them out now and CGP them.
Any small ones 1-2 mm dia just use a good quality filler, and looking at the body I think there will be a good amount of this going on. Also not sure how much GRP bodywork you may have done in the past but don't try and fill just the holes, you will be looking at spreading a layer of filler along the complete seam and at least 3-6" down into each side of the wings from the seam to try and get a nice shape just to start.

Again, don't dick about with anything finer than 80 grit on a long blade when you first hit that filler, you want to shape it not polish it.
So just do that over the seams on the complete body.
That's just the starter, good luck.

If they are deep use chopped glass paste, don't faff and nonce about, get in with a scriber or something pointy and get the holes clear, also any that look soft or there might be a hole under the gel or air bubble in the grp, then open them up, get them out now and CGP them.
Any small ones 1-2 mm dia just use a good quality filler, and looking at the body I think there will be a good amount of this going on. Also not sure how much GRP bodywork you may have done in the past but don't try and fill just the holes, you will be looking at spreading a layer of filler along the complete seam and at least 3-6" down into each side of the wings from the seam to try and get a nice shape just to start.

Again, don't dick about with anything finer than 80 grit on a long blade when you first hit that filler, you want to shape it not polish it.
So just do that over the seams on the complete body.
That's just the starter, good luck.

Ciao
David

Thanks, that’s useful information. I haven’t done much grp work before so this is going to be a journey!
So far it looks to be air bubbles in the gel coat along the joint lines